Thread: So, what should a qwerty other half look like?
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DeeGee is offline DeeGee
2013-06-06 , 23:58
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Originally Posted by stickymick View Post
This is partly the reason why HW/QWERTY is shied away from by all manufacturers now. You can't change the layout of a physical keyboard without remodeling the device to suit. Onscrean boards are just a "one size fits all" solution with a quick change in the settings you can go from QWERTY to AZERTY.

As for a "Other Half" keyboard I'd like to see a double slider like the N95 was. Slide down for the keyboard, slide up for media controls.
If I remember correctly, N900 had the same hardware/number of keys and position of keys for all country variants, just the keymap was different and the "keys" (just one piece of plastic, that was easy to change) had different keys stencilled on it.
But yeah, there are quite a few issues with making a slider qwerty "other half". Camera position being one big problem. And aren't the power/volume keys also on the "wrong" side?
 

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